Andalusia raises the rain emergency to level 1 and sends an Es-Alert message in Almería

On October 17, regional authorities in Spain escalated emergency measures in response to severe rainfall and red weather alerts. The Junta de Andalucía raised its Flood Risk Emergency Plan to operational situation 1 following a red rain warning in Almería, prompting the deployment of the Es-Alert public warning system.

Concurrently, the Generalitat Valenciana utilized the same Es-Alert system to issue two emergency notifications to residents across vulnerable zones. The alerts targeted populations in the northern coast of Alicante and the southern coast of Valencia, which were placed under red alert conditions due to ongoing heavy precipitation.